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by yannis 2y ago
Black swan events can happen to you. Recently I traveled to a European country from my base (Middle East). I normally take my phone and laptop with me and they are synced. I forgot the laptop charger and could not get one locally not at lea
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by yannis 3y ago
I am not sure about the bargain part. It is a window in the roots of Chinese society and mainly its relation to rural communities and villages (from a sociology perspective). I would recommend it to anyone trying to understand a society bas
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by yannis 3y ago
True too many diacritics are difficult to use, although I think it was as easy as anything else when handwritten. As technologies progress any script will be written easily, so a nation having a distinct script is part of its identity. Also
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by yannis 3y ago
Not only Quora, but many other sites including the various "stackexchange" sites started declining I would say from about 2018, so this is not a phenomenon attributed to llms. IMHO I attribute this to the following: a) The overuse
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by yannis 3y ago
And of course you can try and produce this pdf using TeX. In this post https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/27482/963 I created a pdf of 15283 pages (lettersize) filled with lorem ipsum text and without the program r
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by yannis 3y ago
Very true, people complain about software, but my recent experience in a Gulf country, was stellar, all my medical records, were entered properly including procedures, it takes approximately 12 minutes to get medicine from the pharmacy and
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by yannis 3y ago
Here is an example of Hungarian and Thai https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_%C3%ADr%C3%A1s
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by yannis 3y ago
You can think of mathematical symbols as representing math objects. They are fairly new in unicode and yes different alphabets can be used. Like the symbol for infinity is from the Hebrew alphabet. Unicode gives them different codepoints so
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by yannis 3y ago
Now why that statement about mathematicians?
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by yannis 3y ago
The author thinks that by "fooling" search engines and llms, using obfuscated codepoints is "Unicode's" revenge! Unicode is a truly gift to humanity, as it has so far encoded the majority of the worlds scripts, anci
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On Hair Color in France [pdf](microsoft.com)
2 points by yannis 3y ago|1 comments
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by yannis 3y ago
Some research on hair color in France by Leslie Lamport and Ellen Gilkerson. Visiting a restaurant from now on will not be the same for me.
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by yannis 3y ago
No you can combine both, which is the preferred way. As an example (although it does not use CWEB, but its own code) LaTeX's .docstrip/doc/dtx system does that. It generates the code, a driver and documentation both for code
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Ask HN: Is it worth submitting a claim for FTX holdings?
40 points by yannis 4y ago|39 comments
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by yannis 4y ago
Thanks for chatpdf.com I found it very useful
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by yannis 4y ago
> It also because Taiwan is our ally from WW2 days and we have a long history of friendship with them. Taiwan during World War II, was part of the Japanese Empire...
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by yannis 4y ago
Best to look at recent papers at arxiv https://arxiv.org/list/cs/recent
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by yannis 4y ago
The core language should be small enough so that a programmer can remember all its features. This makes for efficient and quick programming. The rest should be in standard or community libraries. In my book over the last few years only Go a
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by yannis 4y ago
Looking back in my life, very few habits stayed with me over the years. One is to wake up early in the morning; read non-fiction books; Use TeX\LaTeX for writing. I read on average a book every 3-5 days. I read mostly during the early morni
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by yannis 4y ago
Of course the aliens will decide what we do next!
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by yannis 4y ago
A ban does stimulate innovation, as the banning of CFs shows (See Montreal protocol), It spurs innovation for alternatives as there is good money in it and it also spurs innovation by end-users. It is a long and slow process though.
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by yannis 4y ago
It will need an international effort, like the Montreal Protocol for banning CFCs and HFCs. Legislation need to ban the end-use as well as the production of these chemicals. I was involved with a study in the late 80s early 90s about the ec
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by yannis 4y ago
A stent for one of my heart arteries!
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by yannis 4y ago
Thanks excellent course, watched about an hour or two. Very well made. Deserves more exposure.
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Musk claims Twitter is now faster(twitter.com)
5 points by yannis 4y ago|5 comments
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by yannis 4y ago
Musk claims Twitter core services latency reduced by ~400ms and it should feel noticeably faster. I would love to know how this was achieved.
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by yannis 4y ago
Excellent article for anyone wishing to understand this part of the world.
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by yannis 4y ago
From my phone: I have Eteraz installed Read and Write to the file system - required to allow storage of a small encrypted file which holds a unique ID, QR code, infection status, configuration parameters, and proximity data of other devices
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by yannis 5y ago
Intrigued about handaxeweb.lua, which of course with little modification today, can be run within a LuaLaTeX document and produce a pdf with your explanation of LSM-trees and or the listing of the python program.
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by yannis 5y ago
Thanks for the links. Reading the books is riveting, as they give a good account of the way of thinking in Britain at the time, and also the daily life in China. If you want an escape from Programming, these are highly recommended.

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